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When couples clash over different approaches to pleasure and enjoyment

My partner and I have completely different relationships with pleasure — they think I'm too hedonistic and I think they're too rigid — and we can't even talk about what we actually want without it becoming a judgment session.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Two people are discovering their pleasure philosophies are fundamentally incompatible, creating shame and distance.

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“Where Are You with Pleasure and its examined life?”

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